# zaref.dev South African National Minimum Wage History

> zaref.dev South African National Minimum Wage History is a paid API for AI agents from zaref.dev, paid per call via x402, $0.01/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-13).

Returns the full dated history of South Africa's National Minimum Wage, accumulating every verified update as time-series data points.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://zaref.dev/v1/minimum-wage/history?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.01/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-13
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/zaref-dev-south-african-national-minimum-wage-history-d8031645
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_gMunC0l47XwH0oKC0PjcT

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability zaref-dev-south-african-national-minimum-wage-history-d8031645
```

Example prompt: Can you pull up the full history of South Africa's National Minimum Wage — I want to see every dated change since it was introduced?

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need the complete historical time series of South Africa's National Minimum Wage rather than just the current rate. Ideal for trend analysis, compliance checks across historical periods, payroll audits, or building charts of wage progression over time. Prefer this over the current-rate endpoint when temporal context or change history is required.

## Known failure modes

- No data returned if the series has not yet been populated
- HTTP 402 if payment header is missing or invalid
- HTTP 500 if the upstream reference data source is unavailable
- Stale data if a recent wage update has not yet been verified and published

## How this service works

History of South African National minimum wage: dated points accumulating with every verified update.

## Output

A list of dated data points representing each verified update to the South African National Minimum Wage, including the wage amount and the date it became effective, ordered chronologically.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "properties": {
   "type": "string"
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "points": [
   {
    "date": "2026-06-04",
    "value": "..."
   }
  ],
  "series": "minimum-wage"
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/zaref-dev-south-african-national-minimum-wage-history-d8031645/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from zaref.dev](https://www.zero.xyz/host/zaref.dev/llms.txt)